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Clifford J.; Fiori, Christine; Mayo, Knutson, Kraig; Schexnayder, Richard

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This text extensively class-tested over a decade at UC Berkeley and UC San Diego explains the fundamentals of algorithms in a story line that makes the material enjoyable and easy to digest. Emphasis is placed on understanding the crisp mathematical idea behind each algorithm in a manner that is intuitive and rigorous without being unduly formal.Features include:The use of boxes to strengthen the narrative: pieces that provide historical context descriptions of how the algorithms are used in practice and excursions for the mathematically sophisticated.Carefully chosen advanced topics that can be skipped in a standard one-semester course but can be covered in an advanced algorithms course or in a more leisurely two-semester sequence.An accessible treatment of linear programming introduces students to one of the greatest achievements in algorithms. An optional chapter on the quantum algorithm for factoring provides a unique peephole into this exciting topic. In addition to the text DasGupta also offers a Solutions Manual which is available on the Online Learning Center."Algorithms is an outstanding undergraduate text equally informed by the historical roots and contemporary applications of its subject. Like a captivating novel it is a joy to read." Tim Roughgarden Stanford University

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Dos mundos a best-selling program for Introductory Spanish known for its exceptional progressive activities made its name as an innovative pioneer in Beginning Spanish. Today it has maintained the spirit of innovation through many successful editions and continues to be implemented in numerous beginning Spanish language classes across the nation with outstanding results. Based on the communicative approach Dos mundos stresses the use of engaging activities in a natural and spontaneous classroom atmosphere. The Actividades de comunicacion play a primary role in Dos mundos since the core of the program is communication. These activities include fresh practical ideas from the field of second-language teaching. In this research-based approach to learning language the development of communicative language skills is the central goal with formal grammar presentation and practice at the service of communication. To this end the grammar explanations and exercises on the blue pages at the end of each chapter are designed for quick reference and ease of study. Additionally cultural content is integrated throughout each chapter. The new Conozca section on each chapter opener gives an introduction of the country or region of focus including information about holidays foods famous people and important cities. Ventanas culturales readings focus on community customs and daily life while Ventanas al pasado readings focus on aspects of the social cultural or political history of the Spanish-speaking world The Enlace readings explore literature music and cinema and the Lecturas present topics such as sports and leisure activities. Dos mundos is available with CENTRO a portal learning management system through which various digital components including QuiaTM Workbooks and Laboratory Manuals and interactive e-books can be purchased. This McGraw-Hill exclusive system offers a single log-in authentication for students and a single gradebook for instructors.

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Studying Religion: An Introduction Through Cases

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Through the use of thought-provoking case studies summaries and review questions this introductory level text shows students how to engage in the academic objective study of religion and helps instructors address some of the typical problems they encounter when introducing students to the study of religion. Kessler guides students through an unbiased and varied study of religious beliefs and practices such as sacred power myths and rituals religious art the problem of evil and the relationship between religion and morality. The text also addresses issues of gender and religious institutionalization.

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The Old Testament: An Introduction to the Hebrew Bible

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Complex Variables and Applications 9e will serve just as the earlier editions did as a textbook for an introductory course in the theory and application of functions of a complex variable. This new edition preserves the basic content and style of the earlier editions. The text is designed to develop the theory that is prominent in applications of the subject. You will find a special emphasis given to the application of residues and conformal mappings. To accommodate the different calculus backgrounds of students footnotes are given with references to other texts that contain proofs and discussions of the more delicate results in advanced calculus. Improvements in the text include extended explanations of theorems greater detail in arguments and the separation of topics into their own sections.

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Organizational Behavior: Human Behavior at Work

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Organizational Behavior: Human Behavior at Work, 14e is a solid research-based and referenced text known for its very readable style and innovative pedagogy. While minimizing technical jargon, John Newstrom carefully blends theory with practice so that basic theories come to life in a realistic context. As in previous editions, this edition will be filled with practical, applied advice and a widely accepted, and specially updated, presentation of five models of organizational behavior that provides an integrating framework throughout the book.

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This new networking text follows a top-down approach. The presentation begins with an explanation of the application layer which makes it easier for students to understand how network devices work and then with the students fully engaged the authors move on to discuss the other layers ending with the physical layer. With this top-down approach its thorough treatment of the topic and a host of pedagogical features this new networking book offers the market something it hasn't had for many years- a well-crafted modern text that places the student at the center of the learning experience. Forouzan's Computer Networks presents a complex topic in an accessible student-friendly way that makes learning the material not only manageable but fun as well. The appealing visual layout combines with numerous figures and examples to provide multiple routes to understanding. Students are presented with the most up-to-date material currently available and are encouraged to view what they are learning in a real-world context. This approach is both motivating and practical in that students begin to see themselves as the professionals they will soon become.

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Nicaraguans and the Formation of National Identities in Costa Rica

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During the last two decades, a decline in public investment has undermined some of the national values and institutions of Costa Rica. The resulting sense of dislocation and loss is usually projected onto Nicaraguan immigrants.
Threatening Others: Nicaraguans and the Formation of National Identities in Costa Rica explores the representation of the Nicaraguan other in the Costa Rican imagery. It also seeks to address more generally why the sense of national belonging constitutes a crucial identification in contemporary societies. Interdisciplinary and based on extensive fieldwork, it looks critically at the exceptionalism that Costa Ricans take for granted and view as a part of their national identity.
Carlos Sandoval-Garcia argues that Nicaraguan immigrants, once perceived as a communist threat, are now victims of an invigorated, racialized politics in which the Nicaraguan nationality has become an offense in itself.
Threatening Others is a deeply searching book that will interest scholars and students in Latin American studies and politics, cultural studies, and ethnic studies.

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In Illinois, the one-hundred-foot Cahokia Mound spreads impressively across sixteen acres, and as many as ten thousand more mounds dot the Ohio River Valley alone. The Mound Builders traces the speculation surrounding these monuments and the scientific excavations which uncovered the history and culture of the ancient Americans who built them.

The mounds were constructed for religious and secular purposes some time between 1000 B.C. and 1000 A.D., and they have prompted curiosity and speculation from very early times. European settlers found them evidence of some ancient and glorious people. Even as eminent an American as Thomas Jefferson joined the controversy, though his conclusionsthat the mounds were actually cemeteries of ancient Indiansremained unpopular for nearly a century.

Only in the late 19th century, as Smithsonian Institution investigators developed careful methodologies and reliable records, did the period of scientific investigation of the mounds and their builders begin. Silverberg follows these excavations and then recounts the story they revealed of the origins, development, and demise of the mound builder culture.

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Abolitionism and Imperialism in Britain, Africa, and the Atlantic

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The abolition of the slave trade is normally understood to be the singular achievement of eighteenth-century British liberalism. Abolitionism and Imperialism in Britain, Africa, and the Atlantic expands both the temporal and the geographic framework in which the history of abolitionism is conceived. Abolitionism was a theater in which a variety of actorsslaves, African rulers, Caribbean planters, working-class radicals, British evangelicals, African political entrepreneursplayed a part. The Atlantic was an echo chamber, in which abolitionist symbols, ideas, and evidence were generated from a variety of vantage points. These essays highlight the range of political and moral projects in which the advocates of abolitionism were engaged, and in so doing it joins together geographies that are normally studied in isolation.
Where empires are often understood to involve the government of one people over another, Abolitionism and Imperialism shows that British values were formed, debated, and remade in the space of empire. Africans were not simply objects of British liberals benevolence. They played an active role in shaping, and extending, the values that Britain now regards as part of its national character. This book is therefore a contribution to the larger scholarship about the nature of modern empires.
Contributors: Christopher Leslie Brown, Seymour Drescher, Jonathon Glassman, Boyd Hilton, Robin Law, Phillip D. Morgan, Derek R. Peterson, John K. Thornton

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Long regarded as a center for middle-American values, Indiana is also a cultural crossroads that has produced a rich and complex legal and constitutional heritage. The History of Indiana Law traces this history through a series of expert articles by identifying the themes that mark the states legal development and establish its place within the broader context of the Midwest and nation.
The History of Indiana Law explores the ways in which the states legal culture responded toand at times resistedthe influence of national legal developments, including the tortured history of race relations in Indiana. Legal issues addressed by the contributors include the Indiana constitutional tradition, civil liberties, race, womens rights, family law, welfare and the poor, education, crime and punishment, juvenile justice, the role of courts and judiciary, and landmark cases. The essays describe how Indiana law has adapted to the needs of an increasingly complex society.
The History of Indiana Law is an indispensable reference and invaluable first source to learn about law and society in Indiana during almost two centuries of statehood.

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Nan turned to see Bens faceturn as hard and white as asauerkraut crock. When he didnot respond, Nan figured thathe was just going to back offas he usually did, the shy andretiring husbandman. She didnot know her history. She didnot know that shy and retiringhusbandmen have been knownto revolt against oppressionwith pitchforks drawn.
The Last of the Husbandmen
In The Last of the Husbandmen, Gene Logsdon looks to his own roots in Ohio farming life to depict the personal triumphs and tragedies,clashes and compromises, and abiding human character of American farmingfamilies and communities. From the Great Depression, when farmers tilledthe fields with plow horses, to the corporate farms and government subsidyprograms of the present, this novel presents the complex transformation of alivelihood and of a way of life.
Two friends, one rich by local standards, and the other of more modest means,grow to manhood in a lifelong contest of will and character. In response tomany of the same circumstanceswar, love, moonshining, the Klan, weather,the economytheir different approaches and solutions to dealing with theirsituations put them at odds with each other, but we are left with a deeper understanding of the world that they have inherited and have chosen.
Part morality play and part personal recollection, The Last of the Husbandmen is both a lighthearted look at the past and a profound statement about the present state of farming life. It is also a novel that captures the spirit of those who have chosen to work the land they love.

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War and Peace in the Mountains of Nicaragua, 19791994

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Drawing on testimonies from contra collaborators and ex-combatants, as well as pro-Sandinista peasants, this book presents a dynamic account of the growing divisions between peasants from the area of Quilali who took up arms in defense of revolutionary programs and ideals such as land reform and equality and those who opposed the FSLN.
Peasants in Arms details the role of local elites in organizing the first anti-Sandinista uprising in 1980 and their subsequent rise to positions of field command in the contras. Lynn Horton explores the internal factors that led a majority of peasants to turn against the revolution and the ways in which the military draft, and family and community pressures reinforced conflict and undermined mid-decade FSLN policy shifts that attempted to win back peasant support.

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Texas Instruments has upgraded it's TI-83 calculator to meet the needs of the ever changing high school curriculum. With it's high resolution screen and app capability, the TI-84 Plus offers the user a variety of upgrades to make the calculating experience more practical, more readable, and overall more enjoyable. This calculator has all of the familiar functions of the TI-83 model, but allows the user more memory and cleaner graphs. In addition, the TI-84 Plus has the capability to be connected to other calculators, computers, or to be projected onto a screen for presentations. Overall, this powerful calculator is an essential tool for high school math class.

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Spanish Verbs II (Speedy Language Study Guides)

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There are many verbs that must be learned and memorized with every new language. A pamphlet that would introduce how each verb is conjugated, as well as a master list of primary verbs that are used most often would be an invaluable tool in learning Spanish and other languages. This type of pamphlet would be an ideal tool in memory lessons as well as reviews for tests. The pamphlet could also serve as a valuable tool for travellers to use.

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Children's Books and Bedtime Stories For Kids Ages 3-8

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Pleep, Meep and Bill are squirrels. They live in the great big woods in Maine. They live in a cozy birdhouse long ago hung in a tall tree and forgotten. Their parents live with them. Mother squirrel has explained to them that she is going to give them all a new brother or sister. They aren't quite sure that they want a new family member, and besides, the small birdhouse just isn't going to be a good fit any more. Meep decides the best thing to do might be to explore among the maple groves where there are many tall trees that grow. Some of them have cozy large holes at the base of them that would be suitable for a bigger squirrel family. The three have been told many times that this time of year, the maple sap is flowing from the trees and large buckets are hung to catch it. They are never to venture near that area because people visit here. The buckets hung from the trees could trap them if they fall into one and they might be carried off like their uncle Ned once was. The three devise a plan to get out of their small house while no one is looking and go to find their new and larger home. Mother is busy and father is off in the forest gathering food, so the three slip away and begin to seek out a bigger home. Meep, the youngest, scampers up the tree onto the edge of one of the buckets and plop, falls straight into it. How is she going to get out before the bucket fills with the sticky sweet sap?

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Psychology is a fascinating subject because it deals with the science of the mind and a person's behavior. A psychology study guide can be a great tool for finding out information you need to understand about the topic and to help you when studying for test or as a reference for studying. One of the benefits of a psychology study guide is that it forces you to reflect on and understand, basic and more comprehensive concepts. Another benefit of a psychology study guide is that help you to understand the terms of psychology without going "nuts" trying to comprehend terms that are sometimes difficult to understand. Most importantly, a psychology study guide is helpful because it can be used as a permanent reference; it will help reinforce what you have learned. You can go back anytime you want to go over terms and definitions that you don't understand and that can give you an edge when taking Psychology.

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A study guide to Spanish conversation is a good start to studying the language when you lack a way to practice it in with another speaker. Since it takes time and repetition to learn any language, you can look over the common phrases throughout the text in order to build up your vocabulary. After several months of practice, combined with practical application with Spanish speakers and structured conversations with someone else reading off of the book, you should soon gain a basic grasp of speaking Spanish. Notably, the grammar of the Spanish language is relatively easy for English-speakers to grasp.